Symfony is linked to the wrong PHP version

Question

I'm trying to move my Project to a linux redhat server that uses Apache but the problem I'm facing there is that this Server has 2 different PHP versions installed.

Symfony (2.5.12) seems to look for the php executable at /usr/bin/php by default but there is a 5.2 version installed, which is needed for other projects.

At /opt/rh/php55/root/usr/bin/php is an installed 5.5 version of PHP that I want to use for symfony.

So how can I configure Symfony to use the php version that is installed at the custom path?

Answer 1

I know this is old, but I had the same issue of Symfony using an older PHP version (7.1 in my case, the default with OSX Mojave) than I had installed. My $PATH variable pointed to the newer 7.2 version and php -v showed 7.2 and still Symfony used 7.1.

It looks like this was solved when I ran:

symfony local:php:list

It listed all the PHP versions on my system and it had 7.2 marked as default. After running this and executing symfony server:start it was on 7.2.

The php:list command also give useful instructions on setting a specific PHP version for a project:

To control the version used in a directory, create a .php-version file that contains the version number (e.g. 7.2 or 7.2.15). If you're using SymfonyCloud, the version can also be specified in the .symfony.cloud.yaml file.

Answer 2

I had the same problem when I did symfony serve.

First I ran symfony local:php:list to know which version of php my project used.

Then I ran echo 7.4.9 > .php-version (7.4.9 is the latest php version I downloaded) to switch the php version of my project.

It works fine for me.